Top 1200 American Political System Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

Political paralysis and partisanship are sabotaging American power.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.

The German health care system is unique in its attempt to combine competition among sickness funds on the one hand and a universal coverage plan on the other hand. Most health care systems are either one or the other, so you either have private insurance and competition but not everyone is covered for everything, or you have a single-payer system. So the ideal types are like the American system on the one hand or the Scandinavian or U.K. systems on the other end. Germany tries to combine the advantages.

It isn't the American white man who is a racist, but it's the American political, economic and social atmosphere that automatically nourishes a racist psychology in the white man.

Nobody knows the political system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it.

We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.

I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.

Media scrutiny is a great trademark of the American political arena.

Democracy is the current industry standard political system, but unfortunately it is ill-suited for a libertarian state.

Imagining the overthrow of the current political system is the only way I can be enthused about politics.

When I was put up as a candidate for this, I was a political person. But after becoming the president, I become non-political, a-political, because president does not then belong to any political party.

The British political system is broken in many ways and needs big changes - the E.U. is not our only problem.

I've been really at the highest levels of American political life.

The system of fathers of the world church, the clergy system of the state church, and the pastoral system of the independent churches are all the same in nature. They are all Nicolaitans. In the Bible there are only brothers. There is the gift of a pastor, but no system of pastors. The pastoral system is man's tradition. If the children of God are not willing to return to the position of that in the beginning, no matter what they do, it will not be right.

Poetry at large in America is naturally a reflection of the American system and culture. That's my possibly narrow view of it, or reductive view. But I think for as many portals for critical consciousness in the poetry world and in the American spirit that exist, there's also an over-arching, dominant mirroring, in poetry, of the corporate structure, the capitalist enterprise.

Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history.

To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.

Meaningful ethics reform is vital to restoring public confidence in Missouri's political system.

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

American political elites feel very empowered to criticize the American intelligence community for not doing enough when they feel in danger, and as soon as we've made them feel safe again, they feel equally empowered to complain that we're doing too much.

There is no such thing as being non-political. Just by making a decision to stay out of politics you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

The rule of reason is the true sovereign in the American system.

A system is said to be coherent if every fact in the system is related every other fact in the system by relations that are not merely conjunctive. A deductive system affords a good example of a coherent system.

Japan needs the American market and it also needs American security protection. Japan also needs America as the necessary stabilizer of an orderly world system with economies truly open to international trade.

Nothing undermines faith in our political system than politicians going back on their word.

Relationships are at the core of any political system and economic system - any family - and I think we drifted away from understanding that in our country. The people-to-people level is critical. It is ironic, though - we can text with anybody in the world, we can have a videoconference with anybody in the world, but [there should be] an even higher premium on showing up and getting to know someone.

The American people should not wonder where their military leaders draw the line between military advice and political preference. And our nation's soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines should not wonder about the political leanings and motivations of their leaders.

For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society?

I'm a big believer in the system, but I just don't think we follow our own system and laws very well. I think ultimately we'll see the system collapse. Because no system has ever stayed around forever.

'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political.

People involved in a revolution don't become part of the system; they destroy the system... The Negro revolution is no revolution because it condemns the system and then asks the system it has condemned to accept them.

At the core of our American value system is individual freedom.

By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings -- Gyges' ring of invisibility. And they have left the American people more deeply baffled by their own country's politics than any people on earth. Our public realm lies steeped in twilight, and we call that twilight news.'

The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today.

Sometimes we overemphasize the political system. There are other ways to make a difference. There's technology, there's media, there's business.

The barriers for women across the world are different, depending on which kind of political system you live under.

The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa.

The irony of the political rise of the plutocrats is that, like Venice's oligarchs, they threaten the system that created them.

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

I've got nothing against any individual American, except that there aren't any. They're always Irish-American, African-American... There's never an American-American you can blame.

Indonesian people have no idea whom they are actually voting for, or of what their political system consists of. It is so easy to fool them.

I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.

I couldn't swear that I believed in the law - or in the American legal system.

Economic nationalism is what this country was built on. The American system.

I don't go to different countries to criticise their political system and tell them what they should be doing - what do I know?

This is the hallmark of a robust biological system: political parties can perish in a tragic accident and the society will still run, sometimes with little more than a hiccup to the system. It may be that for every strange clinical case in which brain damage leads to a bizarre change in behavior or perception, there are hundreds of cases in which parts of the brain are damaged with no detectable clinical sign.

The lifeblood of the economy is that the banking community is a circulatory system for American capitalism.

The political system loves the extremes, it doesnt so much show a lot love for the moderates.

I think some parts of the American justice system have gone haywire.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

When we tolerate violations to the Constitution, the entire moral foundation of our political system is shaken to its core.

Wilderness, like the national park system, was an American idea.

Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.

It's easy to talk about our system not functioning. It's actually functioning exactly the way we've designed it to function by giving so much power to the political parties, which all of our, you know, leading founders - Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison - all said don't create political parties like the ones we have now. We did it, and we're paying a very high price for it.

I think that the economy, and the political system, has literally become such a disaster I don't know if it's possible to save it.

The republican model described in the Hebrew Scriptures reassured pious Americans that republicanism was a political system favored by God.

Promoting American manufacturing should not be a political issue.

There aren't a lot of political dramas on TV, and those that are tend to be American.